Permission of Use and Citation Guidelines for the YNJ


Use of Inventory in Current Form: If you use this inventory in the current form, without making changes you should retain the original notation on page 8 of the inventory as follows:

YNJ, authored by Connie Wanberg, Zhen Zhang, and Erica Diehn (2009), University of Minnesota. Information about the development of the YNJ can be found in Wanberg, C.R., Zhang, Z., & Diehn, E.W. (2010). Development of the “Getting Ready for Your Next Job” Inventory for Unemployed Individuals, Personnel Psychology, 63(2), pp. 439-478.


Modifying the Inventory: If you wish to modify the YNJ content slightly to accommodate your resources or state/country-specific information, you are free to do so but we require that you change the citation on the last page to reflect that the inventory has been modified as follows:   

This YNJ, authored by Connie Wanberg, Zhen Zhang, and Erica Diehn (2009), University of Minnesota, was modified by __(Your Name and Title)__ on _(Date)__.